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<\/p>\nSen. Kamala Harris Shut Down While Trying to Get a Straight Answer Out of Jeff Sessions: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n
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In another moment from Attorney General Jeff Sessions\u2019 testimony before the Senate Intel Committee today, Senator Kamala Harris was shut down while trying to get an answer out of Sessions on refusing to answer questions without invoking executive privilege. It was the second time in a week Harris had been shut down by the Republican senators.<\/p>\n
Slate reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Last week, she was trying to get a \u201cyes or no\u201d answer from Rosenstein on whether he\u2019d reinstate a Bush-era special prosecutor policy that would ensure that President Trump couldn\u2019t fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Rosenstein repeatedly refused to answer \u201cyes or no,\u201d and when Harris pressed him that is when her fellow senators shut her up.<\/p>\n In this hearing, she asked Sessions what was his legal basis for refusing to answer questions about his communications with President Trump. Sessions had essentially been refusing to assert executive privilege\u2014which could be challenged in court and knocked down\u2014citing a \u201clongstanding DOJ policy\u201d for his decision. Harris asked him straight up: What is that policy and did you actually look at it? Again, the witness filibustered and again the questioner was repeatedly interrupted.<\/p>\n The Hill adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n As Sessions chuckled at the commotion, Chairman Richard Burr<\/span> (R-N.C.) said he would run his own committee but instructed Harris to allow Sessions to answer.<\/p>\n Sessions then gave a winding answer that exhausted the rest of Harris\u2019s time, and he did not answer whether he had seen a written rule.<\/p>\n It was a simple question. Can Sessions point to the policy, in writing, that allows him to not answer a whole host of our questions today.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 13, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Watch:<\/p>\n\n